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Abandon all Hope…
Y’all know I write for Life As A Human, right? Here’s an excerpt of the latest of mine to be published there: Hope is six years old. “I hope I’ll get an ice cream cone today. I hope grandma doesn’t … Continue reading
I’m baaaack!
It appears – after a six-month hiatus – I am dating again. Not that I’ve deliberately sought out dates lately, it’s just that I’ve worked through some stuff and lightened my baggage load a bit. So after Johnny-cake guy turned … Continue reading
I have a tender heart
You must know this. It is only when his heart beats softly in my ear. It is only when the silence can settle in like a warm fog between and around us. It is only when the street sounds below … Continue reading
Dreaming a Highway
The epic folk song is still alive. I listened to the entire song (Gillian Welch – I Dream a Highway – 15 minutes well spent) for the first time all the way through on the float plane from Victoria to … Continue reading
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Tagged counseling, depression, divorce, folk music, Gillian Welch, guitar, love, marriage, Relationships
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Coming clean
{I made this post sticky for a couple of days because it is featured in Schmutzie’s Five Star Friday for May 7} I lay sobbing in my bath tonight. I had just returned home from a business trip, running on … Continue reading
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Tagged bath, bathing, friends with benefits, fun, passion, Relationships, single, tired
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Antidate
I don’t date anymore. So sorry to disappoint, but after that last break up in January, I’m just done. Lots of reasons for this: Dating is so — frought. Dating means marketing oneself as a potential life partner. You ask, … Continue reading
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Tagged alone, dating, dealbreakers, love, Relationships, showstoppers
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Laundry Day
by Muse Blowing off a rainy hill workout to sit at the laundromat. A group of runners trots past, headlamps bobbing in the winter evening’s darkness. <<Guilt>> OK, that passed quickly. Hey maybe this is a good place to meet … Continue reading
Tagged dating, laundry, love, rain, Relationships, Running, single
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Funky goal-setting
Happy New Year, and happy first birthday to my blog. A year ago I started this blog as a way of journaling progress on my New Year Resolutions for 2009: to run a marathon or half marathon, to rediscover my … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, focused, goal setting, injury, motivation, nyr, passion, Relationships, should, success, writing
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Awkward Hellmark Moments
(by Muse) Girls. Store pictures of your old boyfriends: in a box somewhere in a storage locker beside old halloween decorations, or on a memory key or disk in a multimedia box shoved deep in the closet or better yet … Continue reading
Tagged dating, fun, Relationships
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Bag of Potatoes
True intimacy doesn’t come easily to someone who hasn’t experienced much of it herself. If pain and loss and unfilled need is the basis of an existence then no amount of giving is going to be enough. Still the cool … Continue reading
